Jefferson County (24 Counties With 3 More Indirectly Named For Jefferson)
This is a list of all of the Counties in the United States named for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
- Jefferson County, Alabama:
- Jefferson County, Arkansas:
- Jefferson County, Florida
- Jefferson County, Georgia
- Jefferson County, Idaho
- Jefferson County, Illinois
- Jefferson County, Indiana
- Jefferson County, Iowa
- Jefferson County, Kansas
- Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Jefferson County, Mississippi
- Jefferson County, Missouri
- Jefferson County, Nebraska
- Jefferson County, New York
- Jefferson County, Oregon
- Jefferson County, Ohio
- Jefferson County, Oklahoma
- Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
- Jefferson County, Tennessee
- Jefferson County, Texas
- Jefferson County, Washington
- Jefferson County, West Virginia
- Jefferson County, Wisconsin
- Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
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- Jefferson County, Colorado: Jefferson is named for the Territory of Jefferson, which in turn is named for Thomas Jefferson. The Territory of Jefferson extralegally governed the area before the United States Congress established the Colorado Territory which in turn is named for Thomas Jefferson..
- Jefferson County, Montana: Jefferson is named for the Jefferson River, which in turn is named for Thomas Jefferson.
- Jefferson County, Oregon: Jefferson is named for Mount Jefferson on the county's western boundary which in turn is named for Thomas Jefferson.
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Famous quotes containing the words jefferson, county, indirectly and/or named:
“I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Hold hard, my county darlings, for a hawk descends,
Golden Glamorgan straightens, to the falling birds.
Your sport is summer as the spring runs angrily.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“He was discontented and wasted his life into the bargain; and yet he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peering through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, ‘Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)